Plastics just keep getting smaller, and potentially more harmful to humans, fish and wildlife. Even the most remote areas of ...

The Great Lakes hold about 21 percent of the planet's surface fresh water, yet less than one percent of that volume renews each year. That second number, not the first, sets the limits on everyone who ...

Scientists have long recognized that lake sturgeon are among North America’s longest-lived freshwater fish,” Scott Colborne, ...

Swimmers cross the finish line along Duluth's Park Point in the second annual Great Lakes Superior Swim, earning what ...

Decades of tagging data suggest lake sturgeon could live well past 400 years old.

For decades, the round goby has been one of the Great Lakes' most destructive invasive species. Scientists estimate its population numbers in the billions, making eradication unrealistic.

Five vessels are under way or moored across the Great Lakes on Tuesday, Aug. 4, as a cold front approaches Lake Michigan and high pressure dominates the eastern lakes. These five were just some of the ...

Heat waves and cold spells are part of life on the Great Lakes. But new research from the University of Michigan shows that is true today in a fundamentally different way than it was even 30 years ago ...

"I feel pretty comfortable saying that lake sturgeon can live to be 400 years old," a DNR fisheries manager said.